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  <section id="visual-studio-17-2022">
<span id="generator:Visual Studio 17 2022"></span><h1>Visual Studio 17 2022<a class="headerlink" href="#visual-studio-17-2022" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">Added in version 3.21.</span></p>
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<p>Generates Visual Studio 17 (VS 2022) project files.</p>
<section id="project-types">
<h2>Project Types<a class="headerlink" href="#project-types" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>Only Visual C++ and C# projects may be generated (and Fortran with
Intel compiler integration).  Other types of projects (JavaScript,
Powershell, Python, etc.) are not supported.</p>
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<section id="instance-selection">
<h2>Instance Selection<a class="headerlink" href="#instance-selection" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>VS 2022 supports multiple installations on the same machine.  The
<span class="target" id="index-0-variable:CMAKE_GENERATOR_INSTANCE"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../variable/CMAKE_GENERATOR_INSTANCE.html#variable:CMAKE_GENERATOR_INSTANCE" title="CMAKE_GENERATOR_INSTANCE"><code class="xref cmake cmake-variable docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CMAKE_GENERATOR_INSTANCE</span></code></a> variable may be used to select one.</p>
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<section id="platform-selection">
<h2>Platform Selection<a class="headerlink" href="#platform-selection" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>The default target platform name (architecture) is that of the host
and is provided in the <span class="target" id="index-0-variable:CMAKE_VS_PLATFORM_NAME_DEFAULT"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../variable/CMAKE_VS_PLATFORM_NAME_DEFAULT.html#variable:CMAKE_VS_PLATFORM_NAME_DEFAULT" title="CMAKE_VS_PLATFORM_NAME_DEFAULT"><code class="xref cmake cmake-variable docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CMAKE_VS_PLATFORM_NAME_DEFAULT</span></code></a> variable.</p>
<p>The <span class="target" id="index-0-variable:CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../variable/CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM.html#variable:CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM" title="CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM"><code class="xref cmake cmake-variable docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CMAKE_GENERATOR_PLATFORM</span></code></a> variable may be set, perhaps
via the <a class="reference internal" href="../manual/cmake.1.html#cmdoption-cmake-A"><code class="xref std std-option docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cmake</span> <span class="pre">-A</span></code></a> option, to specify a target platform
name (architecture).  For example:</p>
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<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cmake</span> <span class="pre">-G</span> <span class="pre">&quot;Visual</span> <span class="pre">Studio</span> <span class="pre">17</span> <span class="pre">2022&quot;</span> <span class="pre">-A</span> <span class="pre">Win32</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cmake</span> <span class="pre">-G</span> <span class="pre">&quot;Visual</span> <span class="pre">Studio</span> <span class="pre">17</span> <span class="pre">2022&quot;</span> <span class="pre">-A</span> <span class="pre">x64</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cmake</span> <span class="pre">-G</span> <span class="pre">&quot;Visual</span> <span class="pre">Studio</span> <span class="pre">17</span> <span class="pre">2022&quot;</span> <span class="pre">-A</span> <span class="pre">ARM</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cmake</span> <span class="pre">-G</span> <span class="pre">&quot;Visual</span> <span class="pre">Studio</span> <span class="pre">17</span> <span class="pre">2022&quot;</span> <span class="pre">-A</span> <span class="pre">ARM64</span></code></p></li>
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<section id="toolset-selection">
<h2>Toolset Selection<a class="headerlink" href="#toolset-selection" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">v143</span></code> toolset that comes with VS 17 2022 is selected by default.
The <span class="target" id="index-0-variable:CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../variable/CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET.html#variable:CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET" title="CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET"><code class="xref cmake cmake-variable docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET</span></code></a> option may be set, perhaps
via the <a class="reference internal" href="../manual/cmake.1.html#cmdoption-cmake-T"><code class="xref std std-option docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cmake</span> <span class="pre">-T</span></code></a> option, to specify another toolset.</p>
<p>For each toolset that comes with this version of Visual Studio, there are
variants that are themselves compiled for 32-bit (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">x86</span></code>) and
64-bit (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">x64</span></code>) hosts (independent of the architecture they target).
By default this generator uses the 64-bit variant on x64 hosts and
the 32-bit variant otherwise.
One may explicitly request use of either the 32-bit or 64-bit host tools
by adding either <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">host=x86</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">host=x64</span></code> to the toolset specification.
See the <span class="target" id="index-1-variable:CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../variable/CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET.html#variable:CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET" title="CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET"><code class="xref cmake cmake-variable docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CMAKE_GENERATOR_TOOLSET</span></code></a> variable for details.</p>
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